[RESOLVED] Listview display degree, minutes, seconds

[qaa8285b]

How to display degree minutes and seconds in listview items? how to start with it?

[jmcilhinney]

You need to provide much more detail about your issue. What data are you starting with and what do you expect the result to be? I don't use VB6 but if the ListView is like the .NET WinForms ListView then it simply displays text, so the control itself is irrelevant. It's simply a case of what data you have and how you want it formatted.

[qaa8285b]

I want to show 100° 10 ' 50 " in the listview. How to add this value in listview with degree symbols ?

[Elroy]

I'm having trouble understanding the OP's question as well.

Do you wish to:

1. Learn how to use the ListView?
2. Learn how to write a degree symbol?
3. Learn how to parse some floating-point number into degrees, minutes, seconds?

The degree symbol is a standard ANSI character. To print it, just put Chr$(176) into wherever you wish to see it. I made a Form1 with a single label on it (Label1), with the label's font large. Here's the Form1 code:

Option Explicit

Private Sub Form_Load()
    Me.Label1.Caption = "123" & Chr$(176)
End Sub

And here's the result:


If you want to learn how to use ListView and/or how to parse a floating-point number into degrees,minutes,seconds, I'll leave that to others. That last one has recently been discussed here (at your request).

[SamOscarBrown]

If you're just getting started in VB6...MY recommendation is to NOT use the ListView, but rather some sort of grid control. SO much easier ("I" think).

[qaa8285b]

I have problem to show minutes and seconds symbol in listview. I got like this

Attachment 191210

With ListView1.ColumnHeaders

.Add , , "POINT", Width / 5, lvwColumnLeft
.Add , , "ANGLE", Width / 5, lvwColumnCenter

End With

a = 0 + 1
b = a + 1


Set List = ListView1.ListItems.Add(, , a)
List.SubItems(1) = "123" & Chr$(176) & 40 & Chr$(145) & 50 & Chr$(148)

Set List = ListView1.ListItems.Add(, , b)
List.SubItems(1) = "100" & Chr$(176) & 30 & Chr$(145) & 10 & Chr$(148)

[Elroy]

Wouldn't Chr$(146) be the "minutes" notation you're looking for, not Chr$(145)?

Also, those are ANSI characters, but they're the single-close-paren and double-close-paren. In this application, it seems like the older typewriter symbols (') and (") might be better. To get a (') into a string, just surround it by double-quotes. To get a double-quote into a string, you can either use Chr$(34) or """" (four double-quote-marks).

Just to explain """" a bit, once in a string, a double-double-quote ("") will insert a double-quote into your string. So, in """", the first quote starts the string, the 2nd and 3rd insert a double-quote, and the 4th closes the string. Done this way (as opposed to Chr$(34)) makes it a compiler operation, rather than a runtime operation (with a compiler operation being faster).